{"product_id":"dissonance-9780226840314","title":"Dissonance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e, translator Kristin Dykstra's first book of original poetry, the author leads us to inner worlds shaped partly by the New England countryside, tracking shifts in the region's nature, infrastructure, and people, while sharing observations on borders and climate catastrophe that reverberate globally. Dykstra condenses signs of urban expansion, economic division, and battles over democracy into an innovative meditation. With a dynamic approach to form, musicality, and scope, \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e explores ways of experiencing regional landscapes and imagined communities in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through her extended sequence of prose poems, photographs, and lyric fragments, Dykstra merges clips from documents and dialogues with observations drawn from two local libraries and her daily walks down a dirt road through Vermont's foothills. As she moves down this public road, which lies within the nation's federally designated hundred-mile border zone, she finds a daily convergence of tensions. \u003ci\u003eDissonance\u003c\/i\u003e asks how poetry can unsettle impressions of a place, and how that process, in turn, disturbs impressions of self, of others, and of time itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDissonance \u003c\/i\u003eis the recipient of the third annual Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3542055\"\u003eKristin Dykstra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.96h x 4.63w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226840314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022684031X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023040\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Places\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Dykstra\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, literary translator, and scholar living in Hinesburg, VT. Dykstra has translated numerous books, including works by Cuban writers Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Marcelo Morales, Rito Ramón Aroche, Ángel Escobar, and Omar Pérez. Among her honors are the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literary Translation. Her writing has been published in the\u003ci\u003e Chicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLana Turner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAstra\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eDissonance \u003c\/i\u003eis her first original poetry collection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48457506914541,"sku":"9780226840314","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_9d5d97d3-cbd2-4339-8d4f-120631d43231.jpg?v=1753582117","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/dissonance-9780226840314","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}